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Sammy Peters

Sammy Peters (Born 1939) is active/lives in Arkansas.  Sammy Peters is known for Abstract painting.

Sammy Peters creates pensive yet rollicking canvases with the goal of expressing a fascinating vision of life's complex and opposing rhythms.  For some viewers, his canvases attract the eye with their unsettling but convincing composition of muted color blocks, twisting and looping white or black lines, and geometric figures formed by striped bands of startling red and white.  Drawing closer, the viewer may be further transfixed by their sensuous surfaces -- a complex interplay of expressive brushwork, scribbles and drips, along with collaged papers and fabrics, and subtly figurative drawn elements, all layered in a way that suggests an intricate, intelligent game of mysterious activity.

As a child in Arkansas during the fifties, Peters was encouraged in art by his father, owner of a sign painting business.  His teacher at Little Rock's Central High School introduced him to abstract expressionism, the avant-garde painting of that era.  Peters wa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2193 characters.]  Artist bio

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